The words VuCalendar uses.
VuCalendar names things — its views, its tracking modes, its features — so they're easy to talk about. Here's what each one actually means.
DayVu
The execution view: a hyper-focused, lane-based daily calendar in portrait orientation. Tasks fall into time-of-day lanes for the day you’re actually in.
WkVu
The planning view: a seven-column weekly grid, landscape-locked, for comparing load across the days ahead before the week fills up.
MnthVu
The pattern-recognition view. Not a traditional calendar grid — weekdays run in rows, every Monday in one row and every Tuesday in the next, so dense stretches become hard to miss.
Time-of-Day Structure (TOD)
Tasks are organized by time-of-day lanes rather than clock times. Three lanes — Early Day, Mid Day, Late Day — divide into six sub-blocks: Top of Day, Before Mid Day, After Mid Day, Before Evening, After Evening, and Night.
Tracking Mode
An optional intent type on a task that changes how the app treats it: Completion (finishable work, action label “Complete”), Practice (repeatable consistency work, “Log”), Guide (structured follow-through, “Follow through”), or no mode at all. Mode is never required.
Regiment
A step-by-step named procedure list attached to a task — not subtasks, but an ordinal operating guide, like a gym protocol or a set of cooking instructions.
Cycle
VuCalendar’s mechanism for resetting a repeating task into a new period while preserving a complete, immutable snapshot of everything about the closed period. The task keeps its identity, color, group, and tracking mode; the cycle count increments.
HistoryVu
A month-grouped reflective history with two lenses — Reflective, for reviewing what actually happened, and Diagnostic, for spotting where tasks slip or time slots overload.
Bulk Sets
Batch-authored groups of related tasks with minor differences, created together in one editor pass rather than one at a time.
Groups & Super Groups
VuCalendar’s color-coded organization hierarchy. Super Groups nest Groups, which contain tasks; color set at any level cascades down through the rest.
Weather Adaptive Backgrounds
A free, physics-informed animated sky rendered from real local weather data (via the OpenWeather API), not a static image — the sun and moon arc with the hour, clouds drift on the actual wind, and rain or snow fall when they’re really falling outside.
Overtime Awareness
A free-tier passive capacity feedback layer that shows exact scheduled-versus-available minutes when a time-of-day lane is over capacity, without blocking the save.
Overtime Resolution Assistance
A ProVu feature that replaces the simple free-tier warning with an interactive rebalancing co-pilot — suggested moves, per-task duration adjusters, and an Auto Place option that silently resolves conflicts with a clean fit before ever interrupting the user.
LocalVu
VuCalendar’s one-time-purchase tier. Individual features are bought once and owned permanently — they survive even if a ProVu subscription lapses.
ProVu
VuCalendar’s subscription tier. Includes every LocalVu feature plus HistoryVu, Cycle, Overtime Resolution Assistance, and other reflection and capacity tools while the subscription is active.
SkyVu
VuCalendar’s planned desktop app for Mac and Windows, with cross-device sync and on-device AI task intelligence. In development.
Set & Forget
A single one-time purchase that unlocks every LocalVu and ProVu feature for five years, in place of a recurring subscription.
TaskHub
The list-based surface where every task can be reviewed and searched, independent of which calendar view it’s scheduled in.
VuModal
The single-screen interface used to create or edit a task — its time-of-day placement, tracking mode, group, and any Regiment lists, all in one model.